Understanding systematic reviews: the meta-analysis graph (also called ‘forest plot’)
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Assessing abstracts of Iranian systematic reviews and meta-analysis indexed in WOS and Scopus using PRISMA
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal and Emergency Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1828-0447,1970-9366
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-007-0036-8